Monday, July 04, 2011

Tour de Fleece - Day 3

I had a little helper with my spinning today, so we've got a total of 10oz spun!

Denny tried to hold me back at first, with his head on my treadling foot, but after I explained to him that's not helping me with achieving my today's goal, he put his paw on my foot and off we treadled. ;o)

That's what we accomplished today:

Fiber is FCK MBFC November 2010, Merino/Bamboo/Nylon, 10oz in two colorways. I'll be plying this later tonight. I was going for thick/thin with this one, but I'm nto really good at that. We'll see what the finished yarn will look like tomorrow, after it's bath and drying in the sunshine.

Here's the yarn from yesterday. I really love it. It's Falkland colorway My Secret, 264yds, 3-ply. It poofed up after the bath, but it's not really THAT soft.

Even though I've got all kinds of aches and pains right now, I want to push myself to do more than I usually would. It's supposed to be a challenge, isn't it?

As if all that were not enough, I've got bitten by the reading bug again. This is like an addiction, once I start it, I can't stop doing it, so I've come to read late at night, until the early morning hours. I try not to be too grumpy during the day. :o)***

OMG! How many hours did you spend at the wheel?! I try to cut myself off after four hours. I have all kinds of aches and pains, not the least of which is in my shoulder. I can't even think about tomorrow because I can't spin until after work.

Your new yarn looks like warm toast. Too bad it's not that soft. It'll probably make a nice pair of slippers.

Can you loan me Denny? My spinning is always very slow; I'm sure with a helper it will go much faster. Just kidding. Your spinning is lovely; I've been admiring your beautiful products and your impressive output rate for months.

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About Me

I live in Canada now, but I'm originally from Austria.
My White Shepherd Happy, and Denny the mutt, are my constant companions. Maggie is my sons dog, but she's with me most of the day. I have two grown kids too ;o) by the way.